Wonders of bureaucracy. Would-be prison guards, says the state Department of Corrections, “should bring with them a copy of their birth certificate or other proof of birth.”
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Du Page County “is one of the most meticulously planned places in the country,” writes James Krohe Jr. in Chicago Enterprise (January 1989), but “the lesser attractions of life in DuPage County today–the traffic jams, the flooding, the vanishing green space, the growing visual blight–may result from too much planning. Consider zoning. Embraced by American communities in the 1920s, the ‘clean’ zoning evident in many post-war suburbs has isolated the day-to-day activities that once were crammed into a single neighborhood, a single street or even a single building…. By separating urban functions physically, zoning also required a commute, not only between job and home, but between anywhere and everywhere.”
The rate of increase of AIDS cases is leveling off, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health: “The number of AIDS cases is now doubling every 16 to 18 months, compared to 14 months in October 1987,” and every 10 months in 1985. This means that the number of AIDS cases projected for 1991 has dropped from 20,000 to under 7,000. The current count is 2,417.
Never tell a banker that lending to your business would entail little risk,” counsels Jerry DeMuth in the Chicago Industrial Bulletin (January/February 1989). That’s too much, according to consulting accountant Gene Leeb: “If you say he [sic] would only be taking a small risk, you will not get the loan because his intent is to take no risk at all.”
